TORONTO – CBC has kicked off a national multi-platform health initiative designed to inspire Canadians to get healthy.
The Live Right Now campaign, which will be supported across CBC’s radio,…
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WINNIPEG – Winnipeg has become the fifth Global Television market to broadcast in high definition with the launch of a new digital, over-the-air transmitter.
The Global Winnipeg HD signal is available now on…
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MONTREAL – CTV Montreal will celebrate 50 years as Quebec’s top English-language television station on January 20, 2011.
As part of the festivities, the station will air a series of one-minute vignettes called…
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WINNIPEG – Radio listeners in Winnipeg received an unexpected surprise over the holidays when Curve 94.3 relaunched as FAB 94•3 Super Hits of the 60s and 70s on Boxing…
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TORONTO – The RCMP and Toronto Police Service have teamed up to seize thousands of DVDs and lay over 30 charges as part of efforts to clamp down on…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC’s new procedural rules for broadcasting and telecommunications proceedings will come in to effect on April 1, 2011.
While developing a set of rules that will apply…
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OTTAWA – Comments broadcast about men’s figure skating during the 2010 Winter Olympics went too far after hosts used "derisive and denigrating" terms for homosexuals, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council…
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VANCOUVER – Staff at Virgin Radio in Vancouver received an early present after being told that senior management would cover their Christmas Day shifts this year.
VP of BC operations…
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OTTAWA – The Liberal Party’s proposed amendments to the new copyright bill struck a sour note with Canadian screenwriters and broadcasters.
After opposition leader Michael Ignatieff announced revisions to Bill C-32, which…
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OTTAWA – The death of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters appears to have been greatly exaggerated.
Months after the 84-year-old private broadcasters’ lobbying group announced plans to close up…
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